The Spectacle of a Man.

Abstract

This book is an attempt by a psychiatrist, under a pseudonym, to show the changes in his patient's social relationships which occurred during a period of psychoanalysis. The book is well written and interesting but it gives evidence of superior novel writing ability and only questionable evidence of a knowledge of psychotherapeutic procedure. In brief, the plot, supposedly based on a real story from the diary of the man who was being analyzed, tells of a shy and stammering engineer who fell in love, developed an affair and then when his analysis was about over, rejected his mistress and found